Paraphrase of the poem Dust of Snow by
Robert Frost
In this very
small lyric, Frost combines nature and self-experience. He tells us that how the dust of snow has
given his heart a change of mood. That
dust of snow came from a Hemlock tree,
and it came to the poet in a way the crow shook down upon him. The dust of snow has saved some part of his
past, and belonged to a day when the poet had to rue.
Here Frost
narrates how even totally insignificant objects of nature, like dust of snow
helps him and us to forget the unhappy memory of the past.
The poem has
two stanzas of 4 lines each. The basic
metre is iambic dia metre and the rhyme is ab, ab, cd, cd. The lyric beautifully narrates the poetic
feeling of joy and despair. There is a
poetic blending of different moods even in such a very small poem.
Dust
of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I
had rued.